Anton Trumm, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Der Junge Mattias under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dehler on 26 June 1767 and Anton died on 20 September 1767. His widow remarried to Johann Herzberger and she and her son Johann Wilhelm Trumm are recorded on the 1767 census of Dehler in Household No. 33 along with Johann Herzberger.
The 1798 census of Louis records Wilhelm Trumpf from Dehler in Household No. Ls21.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anton Trumm came from the German region of Trier.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ls21.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 273.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3377.
Brent Mai